Flo Milli Shit

Brittany Rogers

I ordered the Fentymonths before the last birth,after the miscarriage druggrief by its mangy neckand left the remains—leaky, foul,ruining my clean floor.I tell myself I earnedthe impractical—sex,sheer panties, splurging—asI rush to get my pursestepping over the billspooled at the front door.The sun nudges the curtainsopen, draws me closeenough to kiss her heat.I put on the lace, midday,and pose—thigh cockedover milk-drunk sheets.

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Brittany Rogers is a poet, visual artist, educator, and life-long Detroiter. She has work published or forthcoming in The Hopkins Review, Scalawag, The Poet Lore, Indiana Review, Four Way Review, Underbelly, Mississippi Review, Lambda Literary, and Oprah Daily. Brittany is a fellow of VONA, The Watering Hole, Poetry Incubator, and Pink Door Writing Retreat. Brittany is Editor-in-Chief of Muzzle Magazine and co-host of VS Podcast. She is the author of the poetry collection Good Dress (Tin House, 2024).

"Here, we have a once-in-a-generation debut collection. . . . Brittany Rogers is already a legend and the first of a new kind of poet for whom truth is a posture of both the line and the mouth. A poet come to wake us up for good.”
—Angel Nafis,

"Through lush imagery, slick syntax, elegant diction, and play with form, Brittany Rogers is a generous and keenly observant poet. Good Dress knows Detroit and all its migrations: the East Sidedness of its own language; its Down South tell-it-like-it-is because I love you and mean it. Night deer in the pastoral of empty house lots, the heaven of a corner deli that knows you by your name. These poems force us to consider what we mean when we say home, and who gets to tell that story. Exploring gentrification, queer eroticism, motherhood, and church-girl-blues, Brittany Rogers makes it her business to insist we look at it all— the catastrophe and the beauty—and leave none of its wisdom behind. This self-assured, dazzling debut has a story to tell. And says it with its chest, its whole mouth."
—Aricka Foreman

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